T16_3_2_1

2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 16_3_2.1
People with a specific source of ongoing care,^a United States, 2009
Population group		Percent	SE
Total		85.5	0.3
Age	0-17	94.5	0.3
	18-44	74.1	0.6
	45-64	87.7	0.4
	65 and over	96.6	0.3
Race	AI/AN only	79.0	3.5
	Asian only	84.1	1.0
	NHOPI only	75.5	9.2
	Black only	84.5	0.6
	White only	85.9	0.3
	Multiple races	85.4	1.7
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	76.9	0.8
	Non-Hispanic, all races	87.1	0.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	84.5	0.6
	Non-Hispanic, White	87.9	0.3
Gender	Male	81.7	0.4
Gender	Female	89.2	0.3
Health insurance,^b ages 0-64	Private	91.6	0.3
	Public only	92.0	0.5
	Uninsured	47.7	0.9
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	97.4	0.3
	Medicare and public	97.0	0.7
	Medicare only	96.0	0.6
Family income^c	Negative/poor	77.5	0.8
	Near poor/low	80.4	0.7
	Middle	85.6	0.5
	High	91.7	0.4
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	75.2	1.0
	High school graduate	83.0	0.6
	At least some college	87.5	0.4
Location of residence^c	Metropolitan	85.5	0.3
	Large central metro	83.4	0.5
	Large fringe metro	88.9	0.5
	Medium metro	85.0	0.7
	Small metro	84.7	1.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	84.4	1.0
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	87.3	1.0
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	90.7	0.5
	Complex activities	87.8	0.8
	Neither basic nor complex activities	80.8	0.4

^a. Estimates are not age adjusted.

^b. A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

^c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^d. For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T16_3_2_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_3_2_1.html